European Nuclear Forum

Laurent Stricker

Chairman, World Association of Nuclear Operators

Biography

Mr. Stricker became Chairman of the WANO Governing Board in 2009 and was re-elected for a second term in July of 2010. A Senior Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Electricité de France (EDF), he was Head of Nuclear Operations until 2005 and responsible for the operation of the French nuclear fleet and its staff of about 20,000.  Mr. Stricker has held numerous positions with EDF, including Director of the Grid and of Thermal and Hydraulic Generation, Head of the Radiation Protection and Environment Department, Plant Manager at Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux and Head of the Bugey training centre.

Mr. Stricker has had extensive formal training and education in chemical, metallurgical and nuclear engineering. He holds a “Diplôme d’Ingénieur” from both the “Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble” France, and the “Institut des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires,” Saclay, France. He also holds a diploma from Nancy University in Eastern France. Mr. Stricker served as President of the French Society of Radiation Protection from 1991 to 1993.

Andrej Stritar

Director, ENSREG

Biography

Andrej Stritar is currently the Director of the Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration, the Slovenian nuclear regulatory body. He holds this position from the year 2002. Before that he was nine years the Head of the Nuclear Training Centre at the Josef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana taking care of the Krško NPP initial operator training, radiological protection training and public information about nuclear energy. First 15 years of his career he has spent as the researcher at the Nuclear Engineering Department of Josef Stefan Institute dealing mainly with thermal hydraulic safety analyses of NPPs. He has graduated in 1997 in Electrical Engineering and defended his Ph. D. in mechanical Engineering in 1986.

He was one of the founders of the Nuclear Society of Slovenia in 1991 and was its president until 2002. He was active in the Board of European Nuclear Society and was elected its president for the period 2002-2003. Among numerous functions in the role of the director of SNSA it is worth mentioning the heading of the Slovenian delegation in the Board of Governors of IAEA in the years 2006-2007. Since 2007 he is the chairman of the ENSREG, European Nuclear REgulators Group, an advisory body to EU institutions in nuclear safety matters. He was chairing that group during the process of adoption of both EU Nuclear Safety Directive and Radwaste Directive. In 2011 the ENSREG under Mr. Stritar's leadership is playing the key role in prepration and implementation of EU Nuclear Power Plant Stress Tests.

Philip Lowe

Director General, DG ENER, European Commission

Biography

Philip Lowe was born in Leeds in 1947. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St John's College, Oxford and has an M. Sc. from London Business School. Following a period in the manufacturing industry, he joined the European Commission in 1973, and held a range of senior posts as Chef de Cabinet and Director in the fields of regional development, agriculture, transport and administration, before becoming Director-General of the Development DG in 1997. From September 2002 he was Director-General of the Competition DG until he took up his current appointment as Director-General of the Energy DG in February 2010.

Maxim Kozlov

Director for Special Projects, Inter RAO UES

Biography

Kozlov Maxim was born in 1964, graduated from Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical  university)  in 1987. He received his Ph.D. in electrophysics in 1994 and took MBA course at Bocconi University (Italy) in 1992 and  Project management course at George Washington University in 1995.

Job experience:

• 1987 – 1993: scientific researcher in Moscow Power Engineering Institute;
• 1993 – 1999: ABB Asea Brown Boveri; business development, sales, marketing;
• 1999 – present: RAO UES, INTER RAO UES; export of electricity, business development in Europe, engineering, project management. 

At present Mr. Kozlov is Inter RAO UES’s project director of a green-field Baltic NPP construction in the Kaliningrad region of Russia. Inter RAO UES is responsible for attracting external investors into the project and for energy export from the region.

Mr. Kozlov is a member of CIGRE (International Council on Large Electric Systems), EURELECTRIC (European Union of the Electricity Industry), participant of numerous international conferences and symposiums.

Stephan Döhler

Director Atomic Energy, Axpo

Biography

Stephan W. Döhler, Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and executive MBA, is the head of Axpo Nuclear Division, managing director of Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG and member of the executive board of Axpo AG since the beginning of November 2007. From September 2008 to June 2009 he assumed the position of CEO ad interim of Resun AG. He was the head of Döhler Consulting GmbH from 2006 to 2007. In the previous years, from 2003 to 2006, he was professor for engineering fundamentals at the University of Applied Sciences Northwest Switzerland, where he still has a teaching assignment in the field of thermodynamics. Stephan W. Döhler was in various management positions at Alstom Power (Schweiz) AG from 2000 to 2003 and at ABB Kraftwerke AG starting in 1991.

Stephan W. Döhler is member of the following boards of directors and organizations: ENELA München AG (president), Zwilag AG (president), Ersatz Kernkraftwerk Mühleberg AG (VP), Enertrag AG (president), Ersatz Kernkraftwerk Beznau AG (VP), Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG (member), Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG (member), Swissnuclear (president), Nagra (VP), Nuklearforum Schweiz (VP), eidg. Stillegungs- und Entsorgungsfonds (member).